Description
Course Description
This is a class for people who are new or relatively new to the penny whistle offered online by Mark Alan Wade. In addition to having 3 degrees in music on a wind instrument, Mark has played the pennywhistle since before he could drive a car! He uses his experience as a band director and public-school music educator to get you off to a great start on whistle with fun and easy solutions to the whistle’s tricky techniques. Specifically, in this beginner’s class, we will work on getting your fingers to cooperate with you using exercises that are rewarding to play. We’ll also work on playing in tune and playing over the break into the upper register. This class will also help you learn to play in the accessible keys on a D whistle: D, Em, E Dorian, Bm, Am, A Dorian, A, and G. We will apply new concepts to repertoire for practice with the goal that you will be making music in no time and ready for the intermediate version of this class in the fall where we cover Irish Ornamentation!!
NOTE: An Intermediate/Advanced class will be scheduled later this Spring! Take this Intro class now to be ready when it comes around!
Attendance
This class meets 4 times for 75 minutes. Your tuition holds your space for all 4 sessions. EACH CLASS IS RECORDED! Recordings of the classes will be posted to the class Google Drive folder for your review, along with handouts and supplemental materials.
Course Schedule
| Week | Date | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monday, Feb 6 |
Tuning, note layout, hand position, breathing for wind instruments, steady tone, first notes on both hands, D scale, first melodies, & slurring between notes. |
| 2 | Monday, Feb 13 |
Finger patterns moving by step, breath work, crossing between left and right hands, recovering tone holes, hand position reinforcement, new melodies to pass the tune from right to left hand. |
| 3 | Monday, Feb 20 |
Finger patterns moving by skip, scale patterns, C natural, melodies moving with skips, intro to crossing the break, new songs using high D, C natural and skips. |
| 4 | Monday, Feb 27 |
Intro to high D, E, F#, G, Octave scales in D, Em, E Dorian, G major, repertoire crossing break and moving by skip, playing in the key of G, tonguing slurring/tonguing. |
Course Fee:
A non-refundable $99 registration fee for 4 sessions is required to secure your spot in the class. After you register, you will receive instructions in an email. Please check your spam folders for this.
IMPORTANT:
When you check out, look for a confirmation screen AND a confirmation email with the links to the class folder and class Zoom link. Check your spam folders too.
QUESTIONS?
Use my contact page to email me with any questions you might have.
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